I hate to break it to you but it looks like the stuff with Vin Diesel and Michelle Rodriguez was filmed in Cuba or a stand-in location, while the music video scenes with the artists were filmed in Miami. Pitbull would probably be psyched as hell to shoot a music video in Cuba though.

Can I just say that music supervisor at This American Life is a job that I wanted for years. The music in some of the episodes is so. on. point.

Otter. Pops.

The BBC article says that the bill passed 64 to 12 with 11 abstentions. And as someone else mentioned, there are 577 members of the National Assembly, France’s lower parliamentary house. So this is slightly confusing. I know that the French legislative system is incredibly different than our own, but I’m not sure…

I would just like to say how adorable Ja Rule is in that photo. Those glasses!

It’s crazy to look at the comments in the article about Texts from Hillary and see the change in tone. A big group of people felt very differently about her then, just a few years ago.

The best part about this is how he ends up late himself that afternoon. I don’t feel schadenfreude too often, but it’s nice here.

I think he’s so talented he’d be perfectly fine without the exposure from this, though it certainly doesn’t hurt. PSA: his standup bit on New Orleans is one of the funniest things I’ve ever heard. It all unfolds so brilliantly.

That looks to me like the train to the Capitol from the Senate buildings, so not exactly a public train, but apparently he regularly walks to work and takes public transit so your point still stands.

The very one!

Probably old bay

I bought the album on iTunes, so I don’t have a physical copy. She’s just not releasing it on any of the streaming services, which is definitely a bummer as I also subscribe to Spotify. Your larger point about what an environmental waste physical CDs are totally stands though.

They probably just won’t cover it at all.

So when I was a kid, my parents would drag me along to Mass every once in a while, but we weren’t regular churchgoers. I found most of it pretty boring, but I loved to sing when there were hymns and stuff.

This post makes me miss Lindy. :(

I need to know the answer to this question.

Since the US and Cuba don't have diplomatic relations, you're only allowed to travel directly there for a few reasons, like if you have family there or if you do a study abroad program. For a long time, many tourists would fly to Jamaica and go from there, which was not legal but I don't think many people got in…

At a size 14 or so in image-conscious Miami, I'm almost always the biggest person in the yoga studio, but it's okay. After a little bit you begin to discover your bendy strong bits, which is fun.

Yeah he opened up a charter school in Miami but he campaigned for Rick Scott pretty heavily, too, though. #justsaying

Yeah I do know it means specifically Mexican-American, which I didn't really express adequately, sorry. I don't know about California/Texas only. I don't know any Mexican-Americans in Miami who identify as Chicano or Chicana, so it definitely seems to be a sort of regional thing, but I bet that gets muddied as people…